Chapter 260: Leading
Liu Ruofan showed the momentum of the newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, even in the face of Nagatomo Youdu, who quickly made up the defense from the side, he could not stop him from continuing to advance. The resoluteness shown in an instant made the experienced Inter fullback a little unexpected, from the outside, Liu Ruofan still has the immaturity of an eighteen-year-old boy, unlike Wen Zhihao, because of his rich experience, he looks mature on the surface.
Nagatomo Yuto thought that as long as he raised his momentum and behaved resolutely enough, the young man in front of him would definitely become hesitant, no matter how talented a player was, this was a normal phenomenon psychologically.
It is precisely because Nagatomo Yuto is experienced that he made a typical empirical mistake at this time. Liu Ruofan didn't even have the slightest change of direction or feints, he simply and rudely strode forward, directly relying on the speed advantage to advance strongly, and when Nagatomo Yu came back to his senses and wanted to turn around to make up for it, Liu Ruofan had already cut into the hinterland of the penalty area, and another central defender, Mori Shige, could only follow closely, and in the sensitive area at the junction of the penalty area, he did not dare to have any action that might be blown foul.
At this time, the Chinese team still has a numerical advantage in the local area, and Liu Ruofan, who took the ball at a 45-degree angle in the penalty area, has countless options. Cross-cutting shots, kick-up crosses, and crosses to Wen Zhihao, who follows up at the top of the arc of the penalty area, can all pose a lethal threat.
This is a time when a player's ball intelligence and mental quality are tested. Most of the young players have only the goal in their eyes when faced with such an opportunity. But the reason why Liu Ruofan is better than most domestic players of the same age is that he is more calm, and he still remembers a sentence repeatedly emphasized by Lippi in the training sessions in the past few days: highlight the core at critical moments.
Liu Ruofan's next choice was logical, but it was unexpected by the defenders. Neither did he shoot from a tight angle, nor did he pass to a teammate who flanked in front of goal. Liu Ruofan buckled the ball like the outside, and the outside instep took advantage of the momentum to rub a small arc and passed it to the top of the arc of the penalty area in the middle. There was only Wen Zhihao in that area, and the only person he was marking was one player from the Japanese team.
Everyone didn't expect Liu Ruofan to choose like this, and when he really passed the ball, everyone suddenly woke up.
What a thought!
After a long-distance sprint, he can still maintain such a keen insight and accurately find the core players on the field to solve the problem......
I don't know Lippi's special explanation, fans naturally think that this is Liu Ruofan's own inspirational choice.
However, it is fair to say that in the high-intensity confrontation, you can remember the coach's arrangement, and Liu Ruofan's tactical literacy itself is not low.
Wen Zhihao's eyes also revealed two different flavors, and he gave a big thumbs up in his heart, and shook off the Japanese player in front of him in the opposite direction, and glanced at the position of goalkeeper Kawashima Eiji, and slashed at the ground with a very fast speed, from the gap between the legs of the players on both sides, and went straight to the goal.
Kawashima Eiji's face changed greatly, the goalkeeper's least favorite thing was that many players gathered in front of the goal to block his sight, he could only rely on Wen Zhihao's little memory and rich experience at the moment of shooting, and try his best to stretch his body and pounce on the bottom corner of the goal on the right side.
Kawashima Eiji tried his best, but people are not as good as heaven, and the ball rubbed Yoshida's thigh on the way, and changed direction, which he couldn't count anyway. However, he still made a last-ditch effort, stretching his legs in hopes of blocking the ball.
But as a Japanese, his legs are still a little shorter......
The moment the ball rolled into the goal, the Nanning Olympic Sports Center, as well as the fans who watched the live broadcast through TV and online channels, all clenched their fists with both hands, trying their best to vent the emotions that had been suppressed for most of the half.
"I rubbed it, and I got in! Haha, the national football team is awesome! ”
"Although this goal was scored by Zhihao, I want to make an exception to give Liu Ruofan a thumbs up. Breaking through Changyou, that time is too handsome. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and young people should have this kind of self-confidence. ”
The whole process of CCTV's goal replay showed the whole process, and Liu Ruofan's two steps of passing Changyou Youdu were slowed back and forth, reminding some non-senior fans who have only started to contact football because of entering the World Cup to pay attention to Liu Ruofan, he is the source of the goal.
All the players of the Chinese team ran to the middle circle to celebrate, and Wen Zhihao directly put his hands on Liu Ruofan's neck from behind, and shouted excitedly: "Haha! It's handsome, you can be a little more awesome! ”
"Tap, Zhihao! I'm going to die...... Ahem. Liu Ruofan originally wanted to respond with a joke, but Wen Zhihao was so hard when he pinched his neck that he was almost out of breath.
The Chinese team was jubilant, while the Japanese team opposite, every player's face was either unbelievable or gloomy as water. Yuto Nagatomo lowered his head to review how he could be so easily passed by someone in one step, Kawashima Eiji unceremoniously soared "Yaga", a Japanese sentence that even Chinese audiences are familiar with, and Maya Yoshida lowered his head and did not dare to talk back, because he had unintentionally pitted the goalkeeper, and he was as sincere as a schoolboy who was being trained.
Halilhodzic raised his hands in the air, the atmosphere was too hot to hear what he was complaining about, but it was certain that he was angry right now, while several players from the Japanese team stood up at the same time to warm up. With more than half an hour left in the game, in fact, he did not make a major adjustment to the existing lineup after falling behind by one goal, but urged the players on the field through such a move. If there is the slightest slackness and carelessness, give it to me!
It's a risky thrill that some players will be burdened with more psychological baggage and can't perform at their normal level, but Halilhodzic is confident and with his knowledge of the team and the Japanese national character, the right stimulus will help them turn pressure into motivation.
This team, like this country, has a super obsession with beating their opponents. Halilhodzic is about to inspire Japan to win four Asian Cup titles in the face of adversity.
In the World Cup in Russia a few months later, the goal of the Japanese team is different from that of the Chinese team, divided into Group H, there is no super team, and they set their goal of qualifying from the group and tying the best World Cup record in team history. In the face of European and American teams, the backward situation is certainly inevitable, and from this point of view, the current problems given by the Chinese team are exactly in line with Halilhodzic's mind.
After the score was behind, the Japanese team obviously seemed to speed up the pace of attack, but they didn't want to be fast. This team lacks a sudden fatal blow in the case of basing itself on the whole, Keisuke Honda is in the best form, and the Japanese team lacks Wen Zhihao and Liu Ruofan, who have absolute super strength and can suddenly change the situation of the game.
The Chinese team is now more affordable, and the intensity of pressing is still increasing, so it only needs to keep the Japanese team's passing control away from the penalty area, and do not give vertical direct passes, and horizontal passes and return passes cannot form a threat at all.
In the 75th minute, Lippi made a second substitution. The young midfielder of Changchun Yatai in the Chinese Super League He went out of the field and replaced Yin Hongbo.
He Chao, like Liu Ruofan, participated in the U23 Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, and he is also the captain. His characteristics are similar to Liang Xin's, with resolute and decisive interceptions in midfield, a strong sense of position and the ability to make defensive moves ahead of opponents. In the U23 Asian Cup, he and Liu Ruofan attacked and defended in the midfield, which was an important cornerstone for the team to finally reach the semi-finals.
With He out of the field, the national team's on-field lineup is further younger, and in less than three months before the World Cup, Lippi is still using a large number of young people, which seems to be sending some signals!
Of course, the expert can detect it, but he doesn't believe that Lippi really has such guts.